Resources / Community-Led Total Sanitation CLTS

Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton

BN1 9RE

United Kingdom

P.Bongartz@ids.ac.uk

Sanitation only

English, but selected materials are available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Lao, Arabic, Chinese, Chichewa, Khmer, Nepali, Hindi, Bengali etc.

The site is well populated with information and references on CLTS from a wide variety of sources and countries. IDS and Plan UK collaborated to produce a Handbook on Community-led Total Sanitation, a key document on CLTS. It is downloadable in many other languages from http://www.communityledtotalsanitation.org/resource/handbook-community-led-total-sanitation. IDS is also part of the 5 year Pan-African project Empowering self-help sanitation of rural and peri-urban communities and schools in Africa led by Plan Netherlands and IRC.

Global mailinglist and bi-monthly newsletter. Face to face networking. Document downloads. Policy engagement. Regional Workshops.

The website was set up in 2006 as part of a DFID funded project on CLTS. This initial fund was followed by support from Irish Aid and from Bill and Melinda Gates.

The CLTS website aims to be the global hub for CLTS by connecting practitioners, communities, NGOs, agencies, researchers, governments, donors and others involved or interested in CLTS. The website contains practical information about the approach, information on CLTS in different countries, research papers, relevant news and events and many other useful materials. It intends to serve as an up-to-date virtual resource centre and is a space for sharing and learning on CLTS.

The key partners and collaborators amount to hundreds of individuals. Kamal Kar, the pioneer and key disseminator of CLTS, continues to be a close collaborator on consultancy basis. Some of the main organizations the network collaborate most closely, include, in alphabetical order, CLTS Foundation (India), Government of India, the International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC), the Key Resource Centre Water & Sanitation at Uttarakhand Academy of Administration in Nainital (India), Knowledge Links (India), Plan International, Tearfund, UNICEF, WSSCC, WaterAid, Water and Sanitation Programme of the World Bank (WSP).